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PCMark 10 Changelog

What's new in PCMark 10 2.1.2523

Aug 20, 2021
  • Fixed an issue that could cause a test to fail to show a result if the system has an unpartitioned disk attached.

New in PCMark 10 2.1.2519 (Jun 16, 2021)

  • Fixed an issue with the result screen not showing the sub-scores for all selected workloads in a customized benchmark run.

New in PCMark 10 2.1.2508 (Feb 12, 2021)

  • The PCMark 10 update adds a minor localization update on the Results screen. Benchmark scores are not affected.

New in PCMark 10 2.1.2506 (Sep 10, 2020)

  • This is a minor update for PCMark 10 Professional Edition. There are no changes to PCMark 10 Basic Edition and PCMark 10 Advanced Edition. Benchmark scores are not affected.
  • PCMark 10 Professional Edition:
  • The PCMark 10 Video Battery Life test is now compatible with the latest version of the Microsoft Movies & TV (U.S.) and Microsoft Film & TV (ROW) applications.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause the Microsoft Word test in the PCMark 10 Applications benchmark to fail with a "command not available" error.

New in PCMark 10 2.1.2165 (Feb 6, 2020)

  • The PCMark 10 Applications benchmark is now compatible with the new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser.
  • Improved compatibility with the Windows 10 Background Activity Moderator service to avoid PCMark 10 tests being classed as background processes.

New in PCMark 10 10 v.2.0.2144 (Oct 7, 2019)

  • This is a minor update. Benchmark scores are not affected.
  • Fixed:
  • Bug fixes in the Spreadsheets and App Start-up tests to improve stability.

New in PCMark 10 10 v.2.0.2115 (Jun 6, 2019)

  • Fixed:
  • Updated the OpenCV library used in the Video Conferencing test to conform to the OpenCV specification.
  • Compatibility:
  • The Rendering and Visualization test no longer fails when the Windows input language is Chinese or Korean.

New in PCMark 10 10 v.2.0.2106 (May 27, 2019)

  • Improved:
  • New Results screen helps you review and compare your benchmark results.

New in PCMark 10 10 v.1.1.1761 (Apr 1, 2019)

  • This is a minor update. Benchmark scores are not affected.
  • All PCMark 10 Editions:
  • PCMark 10 will now warn and prevent you from installing to a path that contains non-Latin-alphabet characters.
  • Added a workaround for a bug in Windows 10 (1809) that causes the Rendering and Visualization test to crash if the Windows input method is set to a non-Latin language.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented PCMark 10 from saving result files to a network drive.
  • PCMark 10 Advanced Edition:
  • License key check is no longer case-sensitive.
  • Fixed an OpenCL device selection issue when using custom benchmark settings.

New in PCMark 10 10 v.1.1.1739 (Jul 5, 2018)

  • Fixed:
  • Benchmarks no longer crash if SystemInfo should fail to run.
  • Fixed a bug in the application update service.

New in PCMark 10 10 v.1.1.1722 (Jun 20, 2018)

  • Improved:
  • SystemInfo module updated to 5.10 for improved compatibility with the latest hardware.
  • Result details now include the Total Available Video Memory for the system.
  • Improved update notification system.
  • Text, logos, links, and file paths updated to reflect new company branding. See https://benchmarks.ul.com/welcome.
  • Fixed:
  • Fixed an issue with logging that could cause a benchmark run to fail.

New in PCMark 10 8 v2.10.901 (May 31, 2018)

  • Improved:
  • Systeminfo updated to version 5.10 for improved compatibility with the latest hardware.
  • Fixed:
  • Improved OpenCL driver detection.
  • Results now show the correct OpenCL device used for the Photo Editing test.

New in PCMark 10 8 v2.9.811 (May 4, 2018)

  • Improved:
  • Systeminfo updated to version 5.9 for improved hardware compatibility.
  • Fixed:
  • The Result screen now shows the correct stock clock speed for AMD Ryzen processors.

New in PCMark 10 10 v.1.0.1493 (Apr 11, 2018)

  • Improved:
  • SystemInfo module updated to 5.6 for improved compatibility with the latest hardware.
  • The system information shown on the result screen now includes DPI scaling settings for each connected display.

New in PCMark 10 10 v.1.0.1457 (Jan 31, 2018)

  • Improved:
  • SystemInfo module updated to 5.4 for improved compatibility with the latest hardware.
  • Fixed:
  • Fixed an issue with the Rendering and Visualization test being unable to install POV-Ray.
  • Fixed a further issue that could cause Chromium to fail to start in the App Start-up and Web Browsing tests.
  • Compatibility:
  • Updated the .NET installer to .NET 4.5.2.

New in PCMark 10 10 v.1.0.1413 (Dec 18, 2017)

  • This is a minor update. Benchmark scores are not affected.
  • Improved:
  • Improved logging from ImageMagick in the Photo Editing test.
  • Fixed:
  • Fixed an issue that could cause PCMark 10 to hang on the splash screen.
  • Fixed an issue with the Rendering and Visualization test being unable to install POV-Ray.
  • Fixed an issue with the Web Browsing test failing on some devices due to the sound codecs not loading.

New in PCMark 10 8 2.8.704 (Dec 13, 2017)

  • Improved:
  • Systeminfo updated to version 5.3 for improved hardware compatibility.
  • Fixed:
  • To avoid the Video Editing test running out of memory, it is now limited to 16 threads on processors with high-core counts. This does not affect the score.

New in PCMark 10 10 1.0.1403 (Nov 13, 2017)

  • Improved:
  • SystemInfo module updated to 5.3.629 for improved compatibility with the latest hardware.
  • Fixed:
  • Fixed an issue with the Web Browsing video workload not starting in some cases.
  • Fixed an issue with the Web Browsing workload not starting when running on a proxy server.
  • Improved logging for the App Start-up, Spreadsheets, Writing, and Web Browsing workloads.

New in PCMark 10 10 1.0.1275 (Jun 28, 2017)

  • This is a minor update. Benchmark scores are not affected.
  • Fixed:
  • Fixed localization: flipped the localization for “Valid Score” and “Invalid Score” in Simplified Chinese.
  • Fixed the Verify button on the Options page to validate installed files.

New in PCMark 10 10 1.0.1271 (Jun 22, 2017)

  • PCMark 10 is the latest version in our series of industry standard PC benchmarks. Updated for Windows 10 with new and improved workloads, PCMark 10 is also faster and easier to use.

New in PCMark 10 8 2.7.613 (Apr 13, 2016)

  • Improved:
  • SystemInfo module updated to 4.45 for improved hardware compatibility.
  • Fixed:
  • Fixed an issue where Photo Editing tests failed to run when the system path name included non-Latin characters.
  • Professional Edition only:
  • Improved reporting of system information in the PDF report adds detailed OS version, detailed storage information, write cache policy information, power profile information, and the number of memory channels. The application version number is shown in the header. The drive used in storage test is shown next to the scores.

New in PCMark 10 8 2.6.517 (Feb 9, 2016)

  • Fixed:
  • Fixed an issue with Video Editing tests timing out and leaving entry level CPUs unable to finish the Creative conventional benchmark.
  • Professional Edition only:
  • Fixed Expanded Storage test command line options.
  • Command line --submit switch no longer opens a web browser window when submitting result data.

New in PCMark 10 8 2.6.512 (Jan 18, 2016)

  • Adobe Applications benchmark:
  • Adobe Applications benchmark has been updated to version 2.0. Scores should not be compared with earlier versions.
  • The After Effects test output has been changed to uncompressed AVI format as Adobe CC no longer supports output to compressed Windows Media Video format.
  • Use Compatibility mode to compare scores with historical result data, (also requires an older version of Adobe software that supports Windows Media Video).
  • Storage benchmark:
  • The Storage and Expanded Storage benchmarks have been updated to version 2.0. Scores should not be compared with earlier versions.
  • The tests now provide better support for NVMe drives. Scores from NVMe drives will improve in some cases. The faster the drive, the bigger the difference. Other types of drive are unaffected.
  • Improved:
  • General stability and error handling has been improved.
  • SystemInfo module updated to 4.41 for improved hardware compatibility.
  • Fixed:
  • Video Chat test now works even when there is no audio device in the system.
  • Fixed a bug that could cause PCMark 8 to crash when the SystemInfo module failed.
  • Fixed several issues found on non-English language Windows installations.
  • Professional Edition only:
  • Command line now offers temp path selection.
  • XML output now shows battery life in minutes not seconds for more intuitive results.

New in PCMark 10 8 2.5.419 (Sep 8, 2015)

  • Improved:
  • Results screen now shows benchmark duration and battery consumption in Benchmark Information section.
  • More detailed logging for the Storage test.
  • SystemInfo module updated to 4.40 for improved hardware compatibility.
  • Fixed:
  • When loading a result from a previous version of PCMark 8, the Results screen now correctly shows the application version used rather than the current version.
  • Fixed a result creation issue that occurred when SystemInfo was disabled.

New in PCMark 10 8 2.4.304 (Apr 1, 2015)

  • Improved:
  • SystemInfo module updated to 4.36 for improved hardware compatibility.
  • Fixed:
  • Spreadsheet test: fixed an issue with test hanging, crashing or not finishing with some hardware platforms in Accelerated mode.
  • Compatibility:
  • Updated LibreOffice to the version in the LibreOffice code repository tagged libreoffice-4-2-milestone-7-2 for improved compatibility with Intel hardware.

New in PCMark 10 8 2.3.293 (Nov 28, 2014)

  • Improved:
  • SystemInfo module updated to 4.32 for improved hardware compatibility.
  • Fixed:
  • Fixed an issue that could cause the Adobe After Effects test to fail.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented the Storage benchmark from running on dynamic disks, including stripes and mirrors.
  • Professional Edition only:
  • PDF report now includes details of the screen resolution and memory modules.
  • Fixed a data alignment issue in the Storage Consistency test that could result in read-modify-write operations when a simple write was intended. Scores from this test may improve on devices previously affected by the bug.
  • Added --custom command line option to enable the Storage Consistency test to be customized for selected use cases

New in PCMark 10 8 2.2.282 (Oct 2, 2014)

  • Improved:
  • SystemInfo module updated to 4.30 for improved hardware compatibility with X99 platforms.
  • Fixed:
  • Fixed Adobe Creative Cloud 2014 compatibility issue that prevented After Effects test from running.
  • Professional Edition only:
  • The command line application now checks software requirements only when needed. This enables you to run benchmarks on systems that do not meet all the requirements, for example, running the Storage benchmark on a virtualized system without DirectX 11 support.
  • New command line --pass option can be used to set the number of benchmark passes. See command line guide for details.

New in PCMark 10 8 2.1.274 (Oct 2, 2014)

  • New:
  • Professional Edition users can now export results as PDF files from the Results screen, saved result files and the command line.
  • Improved:
  • SystemInfo module updated to 4.29 for improved hardware detection.
  • Fixed:
  • Fixed a bug that left the PCMark.exe process running after closing the application.

New in PCMark 10 8 2.0.228 (Mar 12, 2014)

  • Improved:
  • SystemInfo module updated to 4.26 for improved hardware detection.
  • Fixed:
  • Photo Editing test: fixed the issue with error message, "Init error: System.BadImageFormatException."
  • Video Editing test: fixed the issue with error message, "file is too small."
  • Steam version only:
  • Fixed an issue that gave an error when choosing to view results online.
  • Professional Edition only:
  • Added command line option --randomdata to Expanded Storage Test. See command line guide for details.

New in PCMark 10 8 2.0.204 (Feb 4, 2014)

  • Fixed an issue that prevented PCMark 8 from launching after a recent Steam update.
  • Fixed an issue with Expanded Storage tests (Professional Edition only) that could result in the unintentional removal of the partition table from a non-empty drive.

New in PCMark 10 8 2.0.191 (Jan 18, 2014)

  • This update improved the Home, Creative and Work benchmarks with new tests using popular open source applications for image processing, video editing and spreadsheets. We added a wider variety of workloads to the Work benchmark to better reflect the way PCs are used in enterprise environments. And for Professional Edition users, the Storage benchmark was expanded with two new options that enable specialist analysis of drive performance.

New in PCMark 10 8 1.2.157 (Oct 21, 2013)

  • New:
  • Basic and Advanced Editions now available
  • You can now submit and save scores online
  • Improved:
  • Various UI changes

New in PCMark 10 8 1.1.111 (Oct 21, 2013)

  • New:
  • Home and Creative benchmarks now offer a choice of run modes
  • Conventional mode does not use OpenCL acceleration, reflecting how the majority of software works today
  • Accelerated mode uses OpenCL acceleration, anticipating how software may work in the future
  • New interactive graphs show hardware monitoring data from each benchmark run.
  • Improved:
  • Progress windows now show estimated time for each test
  • SystemInfo scan is now at least 50% faster
  • Compatibility:
  • Compatible with Windows 8.1
  • Compatible with Internet Explorer 11
  • SystemInfo updated to v4.21 for improved compatibility with the latest hardware
  • New troubleshooting options for OpenCL device selection in Help tab.
  • Fixed:
  • Fixed an issue in the Web Browsing test that could cause the test to hang
  • Fixed an issue with Video Chat and Video Group Chat showing empty windows
  • Fixed a bug that could cause Video Chat tests to return inaccurate results
  • Fixed a crash on 32 bit versions of Windows

New in PCMark 10 1.4.0 (Mar 4, 2013)

  • Improvements:
  • Enhanced accuracy in video playback drawn frames measurement.
  • In addition to the standard result, PCMark 7 Storage tests now report additional "raw" results where the metric idle values have been excluded from the score calculation.
  • New troubleshooting option for hardware acceleration of video transcoding - "Enable hardware accelerated video transcoding" checkbox on the Help tab.
  • Improved logging.
  • Compatibility:
  • Now fully compatible with Windows 8.
  • The Web Browsing test has been completely rewritten to avoid compatibility issues with Windows 8. The previous implementation was based on Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC), the new one is a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) application. The heavy lifting in the test is still done by the WebBrowser2 control. Benchmark scores are affected, in most cases going up by a few percent.
  • SystemInfo updated to version 4.15 for Windows 8 compatibility.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed issues in video transcoding tests and added transcoding output file validation. These changes affect benchmark scores.
  • Fixed a data compressibility bug in the storage workloads. Benchmark scores are affected in configurations that use data compression at the hardware level.